31st year - N° 133 Thursday, 12 May 2016

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31st year - N° 133 Thursday, 12 May 2016

12 May / Today's 18 Events:

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(+) 196 years ago Friday 12th of May 1820 Social reformer, statistician and modern nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale aka The Lady with the Lamp is born in Villa La Colombia, Via di Santa Maria a Marignolle 2, Firenze, Toscana, Italy.

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(+) 174 years ago Thursday 12th of May 1842 Composer Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet is born in Place de la Terrasse, Montaud, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France.

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(+) 121 years ago Sunday 12th of May 1895 Spiritual leader Jiddu Krishnamurti is born in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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(+) 119 years ago Wednesday 12th of May 1897 Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer is born in San Francisco, California, United States.

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(+) 109 years ago Sunday 12th of May 1907 Actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn is born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

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(-) 109 years ago Sunday 12th of May 1907 Writer Joris-Karl Charles Marie Georges Huysmans dies of cancer of the mouth at the age of 59 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

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(+) 98 years ago Sunday 12th of May 1918 American Communist and Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg is born in New York City, New York, United States.

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(+) 95 years ago Thursday 12th of May 1921 Artist and pedagogue Joseph Heinrich Beuys is born in Krefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

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(+) 88 years ago Saturday 12th of May 1928 Singer-songwriter and composer Burt Freeman Bacharach is born in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

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(x) 84 years ago Thursday 12th of May 1932 Kidnapped 2-year-old Kidnap victim Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. is found dead in a grove of trees by delivery truck driver William Allen in Mercer County, Hopewell Township, New Jersey, United States.

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(+) 80 years ago Tuesday 12th of May 1936 Painter Frank Stella is born in Malden, Massachusetts, United States.

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(+) 74 years ago He Was a Spasticus Autisticus Tuesday 12th of May 1942 Musician Ian Robins Dury known from Ian Dury and the Blockheads is born in 43 Weald Rise, Harrow Weald, Greater London, United Kingdom.

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(+) 69 years ago Monday 12th of May 1947 Member of Zentralrat der Umherschweifenden Haschrebellen and Bewegung 2. Juni Georg von Rauch is born in Marburg-an-der-Lahn, Hessen, Germany.

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(x) 60 years ago Saturday 12th of May 1956 36-year-old Actor Montgomery Edward 'Monty' Clift crashes his car into a telephone pole on the way back from a dinner party at the house of Elizabeth Taylor in Tower Road, Beverly Hills, California, United States. Alerted by friend Kevin McCarthy, who witnessed the accident, Taylor raced to Clift's side, manually pulling a tooth out of his tongue as he had begun to choke on it.

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(-) 35 years ago Tuesday 12th of May 1981 Irish republican hunger striker Francis Hughes, originally Proinsias Ó hAodha dies after 59 days of hungerstriking at the age of 31 in Maze Prison, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Hughes was the second to die in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike.

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(x) 32 years ago Saturday 12th of May 1984 38-year-old Serial killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank has his second death-sentence commuted to life-imprisonment in Centrale Gevangenis, Geldenaakse Vest, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.

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(-) 13 years ago Monday 12th of May 2003 Actor Gregory Eldred Peck dies of bronchopneumonia at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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(-) 8 years ago He Personally Decided to Die Monday 12th of May 2008 Artist Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg dies of heart failure at the age of 83 in Captiva Island, Florida, United States. Rauschenberg's heart failure followed a personal decision to go off life support.

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